bhyve VM stopped to boot after moving virtio disks

[Ian Lepore]

On Fri, 2019-04-19 at 23:00 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i have bhyve VM  (linux) with 2 virtual disks.
> 
> they were backed on geli encrypted partitions on SSD
> 
> as it is rarely used VM i wanted to move it to HDD file.
> 
> i just did
> 
> dd if=/dev/partition1.eli of=file1 bs=1m
> dd if=/dev/partition2.eli of=file2 bs=1m
> 
> there were no errors when doing dd
> 
> and changed /dev/partition1.eli to file1 and same with second in 
> virtio-blk filename.
> 
> Everything else is unchanged.
> 
> now it doesn't boot. on UEFI virtual framebuffer i see
> 
> Boot Failed. EFI Misc Device
> Boot Failed. EFI Misc Device 1
> .
> 
> 
> 
> Could you give me any clues?
> 

Are you absolutely certain those encrypted partition sizes are an exact
multiple of 1m?  If not, you should add a 'conv=sync' option to the dd.

-- Ian